{"title":"Burton RWS, Nancy Jane (1891–1972)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNancy Jane Burton RWS (1891–1972) was born at Insh in Inverness-shire in the Scottish Highlands. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1909 to 1915, taking day classes in drawing and painting and evening classes in lithography. She studied under the painter of animals and birds John Murray Thomson RSA (1885–1974). Her occupation during this time is listed as an art mistress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe taught art at a school in Callander and for a time lived at Aberfoyle, Stirling before moving to a farm at Tyndrum in Perthshire. In 1932 she sailed to India to visit her sister, initially intending to stay for six months. She remained for the next four years, making a home at Rawalpindi in modern-day Pakistan, and travelling extensively through northern India (now part of Pakistan), Afghanistan and Kashmir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the mid-1920s, Burton was a member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists and won their Lauder Award in 1924, in 1931 and in 1946 and 1953. She was a prolific exhibitor, especially with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts but also with the Royal Scottish Academy, the Aberdeen Artists Society and the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society. Works by Burton were also shown at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was close friends with 'Glasgow Girls' artists Kate Cameron and Helen Lamb.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nancy-jane-burton-rws-terrier-dog-on-garden-steps-original-c-1920s-watercolour-painting-kd-129","title":"Nancy Jane Burton RWS, Terrier Dog on Garden Steps – c.1920s watercolour painting","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original c.1920s watercolour painting – Nancy Jane Burton RWS, Terrier Dog on Garden Steps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA delightful animal painting by Nancy Jane Burton RWS (1891–1972), one of Scotland's leading animal painters of the first half of the 20th century. The sweet canine study is fleshed out into a beautiful scene with sun-drenched garden steps and vivid flashes of colour in the flower beds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurton's characteristic lightness of touch brings the painting to life with a sense of a captured moment in time. Her preference for naturalist, plein-air subjects, executed in areas of flat, transparent wash, shows influence of the Glasgow Boys.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53800912585033,"sku":"KD-129","price":410.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/KD-129.jpg?v=1770217937"}],"url":"https:\/\/somersetandwood.com\/it-eu\/collections\/burton-rws-nancy-jane-1891-1972.oembed","provider":"Somerset \u0026 Wood Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}